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Araki M, Park SJ, Dauerman HL, Uemura S, Kim JS, Di Mario C, Johnson TW, Guagliumi G, Kastrati A, Joner M, Holm NR, Alfonso F, Wijns W, Adriaenssens T, Nef H, Rioufol G, Amabile N, Souteyrand G, Meneveau N, Gerbaud E, Opolski MP, Gonzalo N, Tearney GJ, Bouma B, Aguirre AD, Mintz GS, Stone GW, Bourantas CV, Räber L, Gili S, Mizuno K, Kimura S, Shinke T, Hong MK, Jang Y, Cho JM, Yan BP, Porto I, Niccoli G, Montone RA, Thondapu V, Papafaklis MI, Michalis LK, Reynolds H, Saw J, Libby P, Weisz G, Iannaccone M, Gori T, Toutouzas K, Yonetsu T, Minami Y, Takano M, Raffel OC, Kurihara O, Soeda T, Sugiyama T, Kim HO, Lee T, Higuma T, Nakajima A, Yamamoto E, Bryniarski KL, Di Vito L, Vergallo R, Fracassi F, Russo M, Seegers LM, McNulty I, Park S, Feldman M, Escaned J, Prati F, Arbustini E, Pinto FJ, Waksman R, Garcia-Garcia HM, Maehara A, Ali Z, Finn AV, Virmani R, Kini AS, Daemen J, Kume T, Hibi K, Tanaka A, Akasaka T, Kubo T, Yasuda S, Croce K, Granada JF, Lerman A, Prasad A, Regar E, Saito Y, Sankardas MA, Subban V, Weissman NJ, Chen Y, Yu B, Nicholls SJ, Barlis P, West NEJ, Arbab-Zadeh A, Ye JC, Dijkstra J, Lee H, Narula J, Crea F, Nakamura S, Kakuta T, Fujimoto J, Fuster V, Jang IK. Author Correction: Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention. Nat Rev Cardiol 2024; 21:348. [PMID: 38110566 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-023-00982-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Technische Universität München and Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- National University of Ireland Galway and Saolta University Healthcare Group, Galway, Ireland
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France
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- Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Barts Health NHS Trust, University College London and Queen Mary University London, London, UK
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- Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, San Martino Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Universitäts medizin Mainz and DZHK Rhein-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Kawasaki Municipal Tama Hospital, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Cardiology, Department of Interventional Cardiology, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland
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- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- UniCamillus - Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy
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- IRCCS Foundation University Hospital Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Santa Maria University Hospital, CHULN Center of Cardiology of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Medicine, Lisbon Academic Medical Center, Lisbon, Portugal
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- MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Sixth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Scarpa Matuck BR, Akino N, Bakhshi H, Cox C, Ebrahimihoor E, Ishida M, Lemos PA, Lima JAC, Matheson MB, Orii M, Ostovaneh A, Ostovaneh MR, Schuijf JD, Szarf G, Trost JC, Yoshioka K, Arbab-Zadeh A. Ultra-high-resolution CT vs. invasive angiography for detecting hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease: Rationale and methods of the CORE-PRECISION multicenter study. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2024:S1934-5925(24)00107-2. [PMID: 38702271 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024]
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BACKGROUND Direct coronary arterial evaluation via computed tomography (CT) angiography is the most accurate noninvasive test for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, diagnostic accuracy is limited in the setting of severe coronary calcification or stents. Ultra-high-resolution CT (UHR-CT) may overcome this limitation, but no rigorous study has tested this hypothesis. METHODS The CORE-PRECISION is an international, multicenter, prospective diagnostic accuracy study testing the non-inferiority of UHR-CT compared to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) for identifying patients with hemodynamically significant CAD. The study will enroll 150 patients with history of CAD, defined as prior documentation of lumen obstruction, stenting, or a calcium score ≥400, who will undergo UHR-CT before clinically prompted ICA. Assessment of hemodynamically significant CAD by UHR-CT and ICA will follow clinical standards. The reference standard will be the quantitative flow ratio (QFR) with <0.8 defined as abnormal. All data will be analyzed in independent core laboratories. RESULTS The primary outcome will be the comparative diagnostic accuracy of UHR-CT vs. ICA for detecting hemodynamically significant CAD on a patient level. Secondary analyses will focus on vessel level diagnostic accuracy, quantitative stenosis analysis, automated contour detection, in-depth plaque analysis, and others. CONCLUSION CORE-PRECISION aims to investigate if UHR-CT is non-inferior to ICA for detecting hemodynamically significant CAD in high-risk patients, including those with severe coronary calcification or stents. We anticipate this study to provide valuable insights into the utility of UHR-CT in this challenging population and for its potential to establish a new standard for CAD assessment.
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- Bruna R Scarpa Matuck
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, Tochigi, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Selvam PV, Grandhi GR, Leucker TM, Arbab-Zadeh A, Gulati M, Blumenthal RS, Whelton SP. Recent advances in cardiovascular risk assessment: The added value of non-invasive anatomic imaging. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2024; 18:113-119. [PMID: 38326189 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
Abstract
In 2022, multiple original research studies were conducted highlighting the utility of coronary artery calcium (CAC) imaging in young individuals and provided further evidence for the role of CAC to improve atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment. Mean calcium density was shown to be a more reliable predictor than peak density in risk assessment. Additionally, in light of the ACC/AHA/Multispecialty Chest Pain Guideline's recent elevation of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to a Class I (level of evidence A) recommendation as an index diagnostic test for acute or stable chest pain, several studies support the utility of CCTA and guided future directions. This review summarizes recent studies that highlight the role of non-invasive imaging in enhancing ASCVD risk assessment across different populations.
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- Pooja V Selvam
- Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Will ChatGPT take over the manuscript review process? J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2024; 18:211-212. [PMID: 38453291 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Malik RF, Sun KJ, Azadi JR, Lau BD, Whelton S, Arbab-Zadeh A, Wilson RF, Johnson PT. Opportunistic Screening for Coronary Artery Disease: An Untapped Population Health Resource. J Am Coll Radiol 2024:S1546-1440(24)00197-2. [PMID: 38382860 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2024.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. At-risk asymptomatic adults are eligible for screening with electrocardiogram-gated coronary artery calcium (CAC) CT, which aids in risk stratification and management decision-making. Incidental CAC (iCAC) is easily quantified on chest CT in patients imaged for noncardiac indications; however, radiologists do not routinely report the finding. OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical significance of CAC identified incidentally on routine chest CT performed for noncardiac indications. DESIGN An informationist developed search strategies in MEDLINE, Embase, and SCOPUS, and two reviewers independently screened results at both the abstract and full text levels. Data extracted from eligible articles included age, rate of iCAC identification, radiologist reporting frequency, impact on downstream medical management, and association of iCAC with patient outcomes. RESULTS From 359 unique citations, 83 research publications met inclusion criteria. The percentage of patients with iCAC ranged from 9% to 100%. Thirty-one investigations measured association(s) between iCAC and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and 29 identified significant correlations, including nonfatal myocardial infarction, fatal myocardial infarction, major adverse cardiovascular event, cardiovascular death, and all-cause death. iCAC was present in 20% to 100% of the patients in these cohorts, but when present, iCAC was reported by radiologists in only 31% to 44% of cases. Between 18% and 77% of patients with iCAC were not on preventive medications in studies that reported these data. Seven studies measured the effect of reporting on guideline directed medical therapy, and 5 (71%) reported an increase in medication prescriptions after diagnosis of iCAC, with one confirming reductions in low-density lipoprotein levels. Twelve investigations reported good concordance between CAC grade on noncardiac CT and Agatston score on electrocardiogram-gated cardiac CT, and 10 demonstrated that artificial intelligence tools can reliably calculate an Agatston score on noncardiac CT. CONCLUSION A body of evidence demonstrates that patients with iCAC on routine chest CT are at risk for cardiovascular disease events and death, but they are often undiagnosed. Uniform reporting of iCAC in the chest CT impression represents an opportunity for radiology to contribute to early identification of high-risk individuals and potentially reduce morbidity and mortality. AI tools have been validated to calculate Agatston score on routine chest CT and hold the best potential for facilitating broad adoption.
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- Rubab F Malik
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Assistant Professor of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Associate Professor of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Director of Cardiac CT, Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Evidence Based Practice Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Vice President of Care Transformation, Vice Chair of Quality and Safety in Radiology, Professor of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Föllmer B, Williams MC, Dey D, Arbab-Zadeh A, Maurovich-Horvat P, Volleberg RHJA, Rueckert D, Schnabel JA, Newby DE, Dweck MR, Guagliumi G, Falk V, Vázquez Mézquita AJ, Biavati F, Išgum I, Dewey M. Roadmap on the use of artificial intelligence for imaging of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque in coronary arteries. Nat Rev Cardiol 2024; 21:51-64. [PMID: 37464183 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-023-00900-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to revolutionize the way medical images are analysed and has the potential to improve the identification and analysis of vulnerable or high-risk atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, leading to advances in the treatment of coronary artery disease. However, coronary plaque analysis is challenging owing to cardiac and respiratory motion, as well as the small size of cardiovascular structures. Moreover, the analysis of coronary imaging data is time-consuming, can be performed only by clinicians with dedicated cardiovascular imaging training, and is subject to considerable interreader and intrareader variability. AI has the potential to improve the assessment of images of vulnerable plaque in coronary arteries, but requires robust development, testing and validation. Combining human expertise with AI might facilitate the reliable and valid interpretation of images obtained using CT, MRI, PET, intravascular ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography. In this Roadmap, we review existing evidence on the application of AI to the imaging of vulnerable plaque in coronary arteries and provide consensus recommendations developed by an interdisciplinary group of experts on AI and non-invasive and invasive coronary imaging. We also outline future requirements of AI technology to address bias, uncertainty, explainability and generalizability, which are all essential for the acceptance of AI and its clinical utility in handling the anticipated growing volume of coronary imaging procedures.
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- Bernhard Föllmer
- Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and Department of Imaging, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- School of Biomedical Imaging and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
- Institute of Machine Learning in Biomedical Imaging, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
- School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Cardiology, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Health Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité and DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin and Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Arbab-Zadeh A. The critical role of editors and reviewers as guardians of science. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2024; 18:100-101. [PMID: 38401946 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Armin Arbab-Zadeh
- Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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Kumar K, Latifi N, Rajendran A, Arbab-Zadeh A, Feldman L. Things We Do for No Reason™: Ordering functional stress testing over coronary computed tomographic angiography for evaluation of intermediate-risk acute chest pain. J Hosp Med 2023; 18:1130-1133. [PMID: 37679884 DOI: 10.1002/jhm.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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- Kalyani Kumar
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Gannon MP, Cerci RJ, Valdiviezo C, Ostovaneh MR, Vavere AL, de Vasconcellos HD, Matheson MB, Cox C, Miller JM, di Carli M, Arbab-Zadeh A, George RT, Lima JAC, Chen MY. Combined Computed Tomography Angiography-Computed Tomography Perfusion in the Identification and Prognostic Assessment of Myocardial Bridging from the CORE320 Study: 5-Year Follow-Up. Am J Cardiol 2023; 207:314-321. [PMID: 37774472 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.08.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
Abstract
Our objective is to use computed tomography angiography (CTA) and computed tomography perfusion (CTP) to identify the ischemic significance of myocardial bridging (MB). We also seek to determine the long-term prognostication of MB in the presence or absence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). The CORE320, a prospective, multicenter study including 381 patients with known or suspected CAD clinically referred for invasive coronary angiography who underwent combined (CTA-CTP) and single-photon emission computed tomography before conventional coronary angiography. The incidence of MB was identified in 135 patients (35.4%) with 93.9% identified in the left anterior descending artery. MB were divided as partially encased versus fully encased. There was no difference in ischemia identified between partially encased MB and fully encased MB (37 [40%] vs 25 [35%], p = 0.54]. Ischemia was identified at similar rates in partially versus fully encased MB by single-photon emission computed tomography at (8 [9%] vs 8 [11%], p = 0.57] and CTP (34 [37%] vs 21 [30%], p = 0.33]. There was no difference in the primary outcome of 5-year outcome of combined incidence of myocardial infarction or death. The restricted mean survival time in patients with CTA with <50% stenosis with or without a MB was 4.906 years (95% confidence interval 4.759 to 5.000) and 4.891 years (95% confidence interval 4.718 to 5.000), respectively (p = 0.824). Cardiac computed tomography perfusion imaging can assess both anatomic and functional significance of myocardial bridging with diagnostic accuracy similar to current standard imaging. Furthermore, 5-year cardiovascular events were not different with the presence of MB in both obstructive and non-obstructive CAD.
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- Michael P Gannon
- Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
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- Medstar Heart and Vascular Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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Arbab-Zadeh A. What topics will drive the field of cardiac CT? J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:470. [PMID: 38123246 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Almeida SO, Winchester DE, Blankstein R, Shaw LJ, Ferencik M, Arbab-Zadeh A, Choi AD. Expanding appropriate use of cardiac CT in chronic coronary disease: Key insights from the 2023 update. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:465-469. [PMID: 37923579 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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- Shone O Almeida
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida and Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Cardiovascular Division (Department of Medicine) and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Blavatnik Family Women's Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Radiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
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Koweek L, Achenbach S, Berman DS, Carr JJ, Cury RC, Ghoshhajra B, Litmanovich D, McCollough CH, Taylor AJ, Truong QA, Wang J, Weigold WG, Arbab-Zadeh A, Abbara S, Chen MY. Standardized medical terminology for cardiac computed tomography 2023 update: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Radiology (ACR), North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) with endorsement by the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACI), and the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR). J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:345-354. [PMID: 37495455 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
Abstract
Since the emergence of cardiac computed tomography (Cardiac CT) at the turn of the 21st century, there has been an exponential growth in research and clinical development of the technique, with contributions from investigators and clinicians from varied backgrounds: physics and engineering, informatics, cardiology, and radiology. However, terminology for the field is not unified. As a consequence, there are multiple abbreviations for some terms, multiple terms for some concepts, and some concepts that lack clear definitions and/or usage. In an effort to aid the work of all those who seek to contribute to the literature, clinical practice, and investigation of the field, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography updates a standard set of medical terms commonly used in clinical and research activities related to cardiac CT.
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- Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany.
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- Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Baptist Health of South Florida, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA.
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Ultra-high-resolution CT-Has the future arrived? J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:355. [PMID: 37996209 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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Oeing CU, Matheson MB, Ostovaneh MR, Rochitte CE, Chen MY, Pieske B, Kofoed KF, Schuijf JD, Niinuma H, Dewey M, di Carli MF, Cox C, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Coronary artery disease grading by cardiac CT for predicting outcome in patients with stable angina. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:310-317. [PMID: 37541910 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The coronary atheroma burden drives major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with suspected coronary heart disease (CHD). However, a consensus on how to grade disease burden for effective risk stratification is lacking. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of common CHD grading tools to risk stratify symptomatic patients. METHODS We analyzed the 5-year outcome of 381 prospectively enrolled patients in the CORE320 international, multicenter study using baseline clinical and cardiac computer-tomography (CT) imaging characteristics, including coronary artery calcium score (CACS), percent atheroma volume, "high-risk" plaque, disease severity grading using the CAD-RADS, and two simplified CAD staging systems. We applied Cox proportional hazard models and area under the curve (AUC) analysis to predict MACE or hard MACE, defined as death, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Analyses were stratified by a history of CHD. Additional forward selection analysis was performed to evaluate incremental value of metrics. RESULTS Clinical characteristics were the strongest predictors of MACE in the overall cohort. In patients without history of CHD, CACS remained the only independent predictor of MACE yielding an AUC of 73 (CI 67-79) vs. 64 (CI 57-70) for clinical characteristics. Noncalcified plaque volume did not add prognostic value. Simple CHD grading schemes yielded similar risk stratification as the CAD-RADS classification. Forward selection analysis confirmed prominent role of CACS and revealed usefulness of functional testing in subgroup with known CHD. CONCLUSION In patients referred for invasive angiography, a history of CHD was the strongest predictor of MACE. In patients without history of CHD, a coronary calcium score yielded at least equal risk stratification vs. more complex CHD grading.
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- Christian U Oeing
- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, USA; Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- InCor Heart Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Global RDC, Canon Medical Systems Europe BV, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands
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- Memorial Heart Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan; Department of Cardiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Radiology, Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- InCor Heart Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Zimmerman SL, Arbab-Zadeh A. Beyond the AJR: Comparison of Coronary CTA and Invasive Coronary Angiography for Evaluation of Stable Chest Pain in Women and in Men. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2023; 221:388. [PMID: 36651609 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.23.29000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Stefan L Zimmerman
- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Halsted B180, Baltimore, MD 21287
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Fattouh M, Kuno T, Pina P, Skendelas JP, Lorenzatti D, Arce J, Daich J, Duarte G, Fernandez-Hazim C, Rodriguez-Guerra M, Neshiwat P, Schenone AL, Zhang L, Rodriguez CJ, Arbab-Zadeh A, Slomka PJ, Virani SS, Blaha MJ, Berman DS, Dey D, Garcia MJ, Slipczuk L. Interplay Between Zero CAC, Quantitative Plaque Analysis, and Adverse Events in a Diverse Patient Cohort. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2023; 16:e015236. [PMID: 37582155 PMCID: PMC10430772 DOI: 10.1161/circimaging.123.015236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcium scoring (CAC) has garnered attention in the diagnostic approach to chest pain patients. However, little is known about the interplay between zero CAC, sex, race, ethnicity, and quantitative coronary plaque analysis. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis from our computed tomography registry of patients with stable angina without prior myocardial infarction or revascularization undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography at Montefiore Healthcare System. Follow-up end points collected included invasive angiography, type-1 myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, cardiovascular and all-cause death. RESULTS A total of 2249 patients were included (66% female). The median follow-up was 5.5 years. The median age of those without CAC was 52 years (interquartile range, 44-59) and 60 years (interquartile range, 53-68) in those with CAC. Most patients were Hispanic (58%), and the rest were non-Hispanic Black (28%), non-Hispanic White (10%), and non-Hispanic Asian (5%). The majority had CAC=0 (55%). The negative predictive value of CAC=0 was 92.8%, 99.9%, and 99.9% for any plaque, obstructive coronary artery stenosis, and the composite outcome of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, or coronary revascularization, respectively. Among patients without CAC (n=1237), 89 patients (7%) had evidence of plaque on their coronary computed tomography angiography with a median low-attenuation noncalcified plaque burden of 4% (2-7). There were no significant differences in the negative predictive value for CAC=0 by sex, race, or ethnicity. Patients with ≥2 risk factors had higher odds of having plaque with zero CAC. CONCLUSIONS In summary, no sex, race, or ethnicity differences were demonstrated in the negative predictive value of a zero CAC; however, patients with ≥2 risk factors had a higher prevalence of plaque. A small percentage (7%) of symptomatic patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography with zero CAC had noncalcified coronary plaque, with the implication that caution is needed for downscaling of preventive treatment in patients with zero CAC, chest pain, and multiple risk factors.
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- Michael Fattouh
- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department. Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA
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- Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University. Karachi, Pakistan. Section of Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute & Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bronx, NY
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Johnson PT, Conway SJ, Berkowitz SA, Arbab-Zadeh A, Riley LH, Gilotra N, Mathioudakis NN, Feldman L, Pahwa AK. Transforming Health Care from Volume to Value: A Health System Implementation Road Map. Am J Med 2023; 136:763-767. [PMID: 37156348 PMCID: PMC10526882 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Pamela T Johnson
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Office of Medical Affairs, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD.
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Lima TP, Assuncao AN, Bittencourt MS, Liberato G, Arbab-Zadeh A, Lima JAC, Rochitte CE. Coronary computed tomography plaque-based scores predict long-term cardiovascular events. Eur Radiol 2023; 33:5436-5445. [PMID: 36806566 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-023-09408-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Coronary computed tomography angiography (coronary CTA) scores based on luminal obstruction, plaque burden, and characteristics are used for prognostication in coronary artery disease (CAD), such as segmental stenosis and plaque extent involvement and Gensini and Leaman scores. The use of coronary CTA scores for the long-term prognosis remains not completely defined. We sought to evaluate the long-term prognosis of CTA scores for cardiovascular events in symptomatic patients with suspected CAD. METHODS The presence and extent of CAD were evaluated by coronary CTA in patients from two multicenter prospective studies, which were classified according to several coronary CTA scores. The primary endpoint was major adverse cardiac events (MACE). Two hundred and twenty-two patients were followed up for a median of 6.8 (6.3-9.1) years, and 73 patients met the composite endpoints of MACE. RESULTS Compared to the clinical prediction model, the highest model improvement was observed when added obstructive CAD. After adjustment for the presence of obstructive CAD, the segment involvement score for non-calcified plaque (SISNoncalc) was independently associated with MACE, presenting incremental prognostic value over clinical data and CAD severity (χ2 39.5 vs 21.2, p < 0.001 for comparison with a clinical model; and χ2 39.5 vs 35.6, p = 0.04 for comparison with clinical + CAD severity). Patients with obstructive CAD and SISNoncalc > 3 were likely to experience events (HR 4.27, 95% CI 2.17-4.40, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Coronary CTA plaque-based scores provide incremental long-term prognostic value for up to 7 years. Among patients with obstructive CAD, the presence of extensive non-calcified disease (> 3 coronary segments) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk for late events independently of the presence of obstructive CAD. KEY POINTS • Coronary CTA plaque-based scores are long-term prognostic markers in patients with stable CAD. • Besides obstructive CAD, the segment involvement score of non-calcified disease of 3 or more independently increased the risk of cardiovascular events.
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- Thais Pinheiro Lima
- Clinical Hospital HCFMUSP, Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Clinical Hospital HCFMUSP, Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Clinical Hospital HCFMUSP, Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Clinical Hospital HCFMUSP, Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography Department, Heart Institute, InCor, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Avenida Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44, Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP, 05403-000, Brazil.
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Koweek L, Achenbach S, Berman DS, Carr JJ, Cury RC, Ghoshhajra B, Litmanovich D, McCollough CH, Taylor AJ, Truong QA, Wang J, Weigold WG, Arbab-Zadeh A, Abbara S, Chen MY. Standardized Medical Terminology for Cardiac Computed Tomography 2023 Update: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Radiology (ACR), North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) with endorsement by the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACI), and the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR). Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging 2023; 5:e230167. [PMID: 37693203 PMCID: PMC10483252 DOI: 10.1148/ryct.230167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
Since the emergence of cardiac computed tomography (Cardiac CT) at the turn of the 21st century, there has been an exponential growth in research and clinical development of the technique, with contributions from investigators and clinicians from varied backgrounds: physics and engineering, informatics, cardiology, and radiology. However, terminology for the field is not unified. As a consequence, there are multiple abbreviations for some terms, multiple terms for some concepts, and some concepts that lack clear definitions and/or usage. In an effort to aid the work of all those who seek to contribute to the literature, clinical practice, and investigation of the field, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography updates a standard set of medical terms commonly used in clinical and research activities related to cardiac CT. Keywords: Cardiac, CT, Medical Terminology Supplemental material is available for this article. This article is published synchronously in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging and Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. ©2023 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Published by RSNA with permission.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Stephan Achenbach
- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.);
Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen,
Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute,
Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar
Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
(Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center,
USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.)
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Irrational reimbursement policies endanger patient lives. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:291-292. [PMID: 37633702 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/28/2023]
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Arbab-Zadeh A. The embarrassing state of cardiac CT education in current medical training programs. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:239. [PMID: 37277166 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Will we soon be replaced by artificial intelligence? J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:164. [PMID: 37116964 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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Pontone G, Mushtaq S, Al'Aref SJ, Andreini D, Baggiano A, Canan A, Cavalcante JL, Chelliah A, Chen M, Choi A, Damini D, De Cecco CN, Farooqi KM, Ferencik M, Feuchtner G, Hecht H, Gransar H, Kolossváry M, Leipsic J, Lu MT, Marwan M, Ng MY, Maurovich-Horvat P, Nagpal P, Nicol E, Weir-McCall J, Whelton SP, Williams MC, Reid A, Fairbairn TA, Villines T, Vliegenthart R, Arbab-Zadeh A. The journal of cardiovascular computed tomography: A year in review: 2022. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:86-95. [PMID: 36934047 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/20/2023]
Abstract
This review aims to summarize key articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCCT) in 2022, focusing on those that had the most scientific and educational impact. The JCCT continues to expand; the number of submissions, published manuscripts, cited articles, article downloads, social media presence, and impact factor continues to grow. The articles selected by the Editorial Board of the JCCT in this review highlight the role of cardiovascular computed tomography (CCT) to detect subclinical atherosclerosis, assess the functional relevance of stenoses, and plan invasive coronary and valve procedures. A section is dedicated to CCT in infants and other patients with congenital heart disease, in women, and to the importance of training in CT. In addition, we highlight key consensus documents and guidelines published in JCCT last year. The Journal values the tremendous work by authors, reviewers, and editors to accomplish these contributions.
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- Gianluca Pontone
- Department of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
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- Department of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Imaging, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Goryeb Children's Hospital/Atlantic Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA; Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cardiology and Radiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- MCR, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center, NYC, USA
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- Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Gottsegen National Cardiovascular Center, Budapest, Hungary; Physiological Controls Research Center, University Research and Innovation Center, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology) UBC, Vancouver, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC), MGH Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Cardiology Department, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London and School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College, London, UK
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- Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Manchester Heart Institute, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Radiology, University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Armstrong AC, Cerci R, Matheson MB, Magalhães T, Kishi S, Brinker J, Clouse ME, Rochitte CE, Cox C, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Predicting Significant Coronary Obstruction in a Population with Suspected Coronary Disease and Absence of Coronary Calcium: CORE-64 / CORE320 Studies. Arq Bras Cardiol 2023; 120:e20220183. [PMID: 36946854 DOI: 10.36660/abc.20220183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scanning can be performed using non-contrast computed tomography to predict cardiovascular events, but has less value for risk stratification in symptomatic patients. OBJECTIVE To identify and validate predictors of significant coronary obstruction (SCO) in symptomatic patients without coronary artery calcification. METHODS A total of 4,258 participants were screened from the CORE64 and CORE320 studies that enrolled patients referred for invasive angiography, and from the Quanta Registry that included patients referred for coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). Logistic regression models evaluated associations between cardiovascular risk factors, CAC, and SCO. An algorithm to assess the risk of SCO was proposed for patients without CAC. Significance level of 5% was used in the analyses. RESULTS Of the 509 participants of the CORE study, 117 (23%) had zero coronary calcium score; 13 (11%) patients without CAC had SCO. Zero calcium score was related to younger age, female gender, lower body mass index, no diabetes, and no dyslipidemia. Being a current smoker increased ~3.5 fold the probability of SCO and other CV risk factors were not significantly associated. Considering the clinical findings, an algorithm to further stratify zero calcium score patients was proposed and had a limited performance in the validation cohort (AUC 58; 95%CI 43, 72). CONCLUSION A lower cardiovascular risk profile is associated with zero calcium score in a setting of high-risk patients. Smoking is the strongest predictor of SCO in patients without CAC.
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- Anderson C Armstrong
- Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco , Petrolina , PE - Brasil
- Johns Hopkins Hospital , Baltimore - EUA
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- Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , SP - Brasil
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore - EUA
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Building on success. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2023; 17:84. [PMID: 36870710 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Chehab O, Kanj A, Zeitoun R, Mir T, Shafi I, Pahuja M, Briasoulis A, Doria de Vasconcellos H, Minhas A, Varadarajan V, Wu C, Arbab-Zadeh A, Post WS, Wu KC, Lima JA. Association of HIV infection with clinical features and outcomes of patients with aortic aneurysms. Vasc Med 2022; 27:557-564. [PMID: 36190774 DOI: 10.1177/1358863x221122577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Data on the characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients with aortic aneurysms (AA) and HIV remain scarce. This is a cohort study of hospitalized adult patients with a diagnosis of AA from 2013 to 2019 using the US National Inpatient Readmission Database. Patients with a diagnosis of HIV were identified. Our outcomes included trends in hospitalizations and comparison of clinical characteristics, complications, and mortality in patients with AA and HIV compared to those without HIV. Among 1,905,837 hospitalized patients with AA, 4416 (0.23%) were living with HIV. There was an overall age-adjusted increase in the rate of HIV among patients hospitalized with AA over the years (14-29 per 10,000 person-years; age-adjusted p-trend < 0.001). Patients with AA and HIV were younger than those without HIV (median age: 60 vs 76 years, p < 0.001) and were less likely to have a history of smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and obesity. Thoracic aortic aneurysms were more prevalent in those with HIV (37.5% vs 26.7%, p < 0.001). On multivariable logistic regression, HIV was not associated with increased risk of aortic rupture (OR: 0.79; 95% CI: 0.61-1.01, p = 0.06), acute aortic dissection (OR: 0.73; 95% CI: 0.51-1.06, p = 0.3), readmissions (OR: 1.04; 95% CI: 0.95-1.13, p = 0.4), or aortic repair (OR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.79-1.00, p = 0.05). Hospitalized patients with AA and HIV had a lower crude mortality rate compared to those without HIV (OR: 0.75 (0.63-0.91), p = 0.003). Hospitalized patients with AA and HIV likely constitute a distinct group of patients with AA; they are younger, have fewer traditional cardiovascular risk factors, and a higher rate of thoracic aorta involvement. Differences in clinical features may account for the lower mortality rate observed in patients with AA and HIV compared to those without HIV.
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- Omar Chehab
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University / Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University / Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA.,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Wayne State University / Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Chatterjee D, Shou BL, Matheson MB, Ostovaneh MR, Rochitte C, Chen MY, Dewey M, Ortman J, Cox C, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Perivascular fat attenuation for predicting adverse cardiac events in stable patients undergoing invasive coronary angiography. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022; 16:483-490. [PMID: 35680534 PMCID: PMC9684349 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Inflammation surrounding the coronary arteries can be non-invasively assessed using pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation (PCAT). While PCAT holds promise for further risk stratification of patients with low coronary artery disease (CAD) prevalence, its value in higher risk populations remains unknown. METHODS CORE320 enrolled patients referred for invasive coronary angiography with known or suspected CAD. Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images were collected for 381 patients for whom clinical outcomes were assessed 5 years after enrollment. Using semi-automated image analysis software, PCAT was obtained and normalized for the right coronary (RCA), left anterior descending (LAD), and left circumflex arteries (LCx). The association between PCAT and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) during follow up was assessed using Cox regression models. RESULTS Thirty-seven patients were excluded due to technical failure. For the remaining 344 patients, median age was 62 (interquartile range, 55-68) with 59% having ≥1 coronary artery stenosis of ≥50% by quantitative coronary angiography. Mean attenuation values for PCAT in RCA, LAD, and LCx were -74.9, -74.2, and -71.2, respectively. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for normalized PCAT in the RCA, LAD, and LCx for MACE were 0.96 (CI: 0.75-1.22, p = 0.71), 1.31 (95% CI: 0.96-1.78, p = 0.09), and 0.98 (95% CI: 0.78-1.22, p = 0.84), respectively. For death, stroke, or myocardial infarction only, hazard ratios were 0.68 (0.44-1.07), 0.85 (0.56-1.29), and 0.57 (0.41-0.80), respectively. CONCLUSIONS In patients referred for invasive coronary angiography with suspected CAD, PCAT did not predict MACE during long term follow up. Further studies are needed to understand the relationship of PCAT with CAD risk.
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- Devina Chatterjee
- Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- InCor Heart Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Cardiology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Charité Medical School-Humboldt, Berlin, Germany
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Arbab-Zadeh A. Opening new chapters. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022; 16:573. [PMID: 36517184 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Araki M, Park SJ, Dauerman HL, Uemura S, Kim JS, Di Mario C, Johnson TW, Guagliumi G, Kastrati A, Joner M, Holm NR, Alfonso F, Wijns W, Adriaenssens T, Nef H, Rioufol G, Amabile N, Souteyrand G, Meneveau N, Gerbaud E, Opolski MP, Gonzalo N, Tearney GJ, Bouma B, Aguirre AD, Mintz GS, Stone GW, Bourantas CV, Räber L, Gili S, Mizuno K, Kimura S, Shinke T, Hong MK, Jang Y, Cho JM, Yan BP, Porto I, Niccoli G, Montone RA, Thondapu V, Papafaklis MI, Michalis LK, Reynolds H, Saw J, Libby P, Weisz G, Iannaccone M, Gori T, Toutouzas K, Yonetsu T, Minami Y, Takano M, Raffel OC, Kurihara O, Soeda T, Sugiyama T, Kim HO, Lee T, Higuma T, Nakajima A, Yamamoto E, Bryniarski KL, Di Vito L, Vergallo R, Fracassi F, Russo M, Seegers LM, McNulty I, Park S, Feldman M, Escaned J, Prati F, Arbustini E, Pinto FJ, Waksman R, Garcia-Garcia HM, Maehara A, Ali Z, Finn AV, Virmani R, Kini AS, Daemen J, Kume T, Hibi K, Tanaka A, Akasaka T, Kubo T, Yasuda S, Croce K, Granada JF, Lerman A, Prasad A, Regar E, Saito Y, Sankardas MA, Subban V, Weissman NJ, Chen Y, Yu B, Nicholls SJ, Barlis P, West NEJ, Arbab-Zadeh A, Ye JC, Dijkstra J, Lee H, Narula J, Crea F, Nakamura S, Kakuta T, Fujimoto J, Fuster V, Jang IK. Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention. Nat Rev Cardiol 2022; 19:684-703. [PMID: 35449407 PMCID: PMC9982688 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-022-00687-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Since optical coherence tomography (OCT) was first performed in humans two decades ago, this imaging modality has been widely adopted in research on coronary atherosclerosis and adopted clinically for the optimization of percutaneous coronary intervention. In the past 10 years, substantial advances have been made in the understanding of in vivo vascular biology using OCT. Identification by OCT of culprit plaque pathology could potentially lead to a major shift in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. Detection by OCT of healed coronary plaque has been important in our understanding of the mechanisms involved in plaque destabilization and healing with the rapid progression of atherosclerosis. Accurate detection by OCT of sequelae from percutaneous coronary interventions that might be missed by angiography could improve clinical outcomes. In addition, OCT has become an essential diagnostic modality for myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries. Insight into neoatherosclerosis from OCT could improve our understanding of the mechanisms of very late stent thrombosis. The appropriate use of OCT depends on accurate interpretation and understanding of the clinical significance of OCT findings. In this Review, we summarize the state of the art in cardiac OCT and facilitate the uniform use of this modality in coronary atherosclerosis. Contributions have been made by clinicians and investigators worldwide with extensive experience in OCT, with the aim that this document will serve as a standard reference for future research and clinical application.
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Technische Universität München and Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- National University of Ireland Galway and Saolta University Healthcare Group, Galway, Ireland
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France
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- Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Barts Health NHS Trust, University College London and Queen Mary University London, London, UK
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- Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, San Martino Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Universitäts medizin Mainz and DZHK Rhein-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Kawasaki Municipal Tama Hospital, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Cardiology, Department of Interventional Cardiology, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland
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- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- UniCamillus - Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy
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- IRCCS Foundation University Hospital Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Santa Maria University Hospital, CHULN Center of Cardiology of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Medicine, Lisbon Academic Medical Center, Lisbon, Portugal
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- MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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- Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Sixth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Fattouh M, Kuno T, Skendelas J, Duarte G, Fernandez-Hazim C, Rodriguez-Guerra M, Neshiwat P, Schenone A, Zhang L, Arbab-Zadeh A, Blaha M, Berman D, Slomka P, Dey D, Garcia M, Slipczuk L. 500 Power Of Zero In Underrepresented Minorities With Chest Pain. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.06.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Kolossváry M, Reid AB, Baggiano A, Nagpal P, Canan A, Al'Aref SJ, Andreini D, Cavalcante JL, de Cecco CN, Chelliah A, Chen MY, Choi AD, Dey D, Fairbairn T, Ferencik M, Gransar H, Hecht H, Leipsic J, Lu MT, Marwan M, Maurovich-Horvat P, Ng MY, Nicol ED, Pontone G, Vliegenthart R, Whelton SP, Williams MC, Arbab-Zadeh A, Farooqi KM, Weir-McCall J, Feuchtner G, Villines TC. The Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography: A year in review 2021. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022; 16:266-276. [PMID: 35370125 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This review aims to summarize original articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCCT) for the year 2021, focusing on those that had the most scientific and educational impact. The JCCT continues to expand; the number of submissions, published manuscripts, cited articles, article downloads, social media presence, and impact factor continues to increase. The articles selected by the Editorial Board of the JCCT in this review focus on coronary artery disease, coronary physiology, structural heart disease, and technical advances in cardiovascular CT. In addition, we highlight key consensus documents and guidelines published in the Journal in 2021. The Journal recognizes the tremendous work done by each author and reviewer this year - thank you.
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- Márton Kolossváry
- Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "Luigi Sacco", University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Division of Cardiothoracic Imaging, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Goryeb Children's Hospital/Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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- Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Imaging, Cardiac Imaging Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center, NYC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology), University of British Columbia, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- MTA-SE Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group, Hungary; Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Departments of Cardiology and Radiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK; School of Bioengineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College, London, UK
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- Department of Radiology, University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Innsbruck Medical University, Dept. Radiology, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Minhas AS, Goerlich E, Corretti MC, Arbab-Zadeh A, Kelle S, Leucker T, Lerman A, Hays AG. Imaging Assessment of Endothelial Function: An Index of Cardiovascular Health. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:778762. [PMID: 35498006 PMCID: PMC9051238 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.778762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Endothelial dysfunction is a key early mechanism in a variety of cardiovascular diseases and can be observed in larger conduit arteries as well as smaller resistance vessels (microvascular dysfunction). The presence of endothelial dysfunction is a strong prognosticator for cardiovascular events and mortality, and assessment of endothelial function can aid in selecting therapies and testing their response. While the gold standard method of measuring coronary endothelial function remains invasive angiography, several non-invasive imaging techniques have emerged for investigating both coronary and peripheral endothelial function. In this review, we will explore and summarize the current invasive and non-invasive modalities available for endothelial function assessment for clinical and research use, and discuss the strengths, limitations and future applications of each technique.
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- Anum S. Minhas
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Division of Ischemic Heart Disease and Critical Care, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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Schuijf JD, Lima JA, Boedeker KL, Takagi H, Tanaka R, Yoshioka K, Arbab-Zadeh A. CT imaging with ultra-high-resolution: opportunities for cardiovascular imaging in clinical practice. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022; 16:388-396. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Arbab-Zadeh A, Zeger SL, Blumenthal RS, Weintraub WS, Boden WE. The Rising Urgency to Pivot Back Toward Hippocratic Medicine. Am J Med 2022; 135:49-52. [PMID: 34610297 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md
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- MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
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- VA New England Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Mass
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Gudenkauf B, Hays AG, Tamis-Holland J, Trost J, Ambinder DI, Wu KC, Arbab-Zadeh A, Blumenthal RS, Sharma G. Role of Multimodality Imaging in the Assessment of Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries: Beyond Conventional Coronary Angiography. J Am Heart Assoc 2021; 11:e022787. [PMID: 34970915 PMCID: PMC9075186 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.121.022787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) is a heterogeneous clinical entity, encompassing multiple different causes, and a cause of substantial morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines suggest a multimodality imaging approach in establishing the underlying cause for MINOCA, which is considered a working diagnosis. Recent studies have suggested that an initial workup consisting of cardiac magnetic resonance and invasive coronary imaging can yield the diagnosis in most patients. Cardiac magnetic resonance is particularly helpful in excluding nonischemic causes that can mimic MINOCA including myocarditis and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, as well as for long‐term prognostication. Additionally, intracoronary imaging with intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography may be warranted to evaluate plaque composition, or evaluate for plaque disruption or spontaneous coronary dissection. The role of noninvasive imaging modalities such as coronary computed tomography angiography is currently being investigated in the diagnostic approach and follow‐up of MINOCA and may be appropriate in lieu of invasive coronary angiography in select patients. In recent years, many strides have been made in the workup of MINOCA; however, significant knowledge gaps remain in the field, particularly in terms of treatment strategies. In this review, we summarize recent society guideline recommendations and consensus statements on the initial evaluation of MINOCA, review contemporary multimodality imaging approaches, and discuss treatment strategies including an ongoing clinical trial.
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- Brent Gudenkauf
- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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- Division of Cardiology Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD
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Stojan G, Li J, Budoff M, Arbab-Zadeh A, Petri MA. High-risk coronary plaque in SLE: low-attenuation non-calcified coronary plaque and positive remodelling index. Lupus Sci Med 2021; 7:7/1/e000409. [PMID: 32723810 PMCID: PMC7388871 DOI: 10.1136/lupus-2020-000409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 06/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Background Positive remodelling index and presence of low-attenuation non-calcified plaque (LANCP) are characteristic vessel changes in unstable coronary plaques. We sought to characterise these high-risk plaque features in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare them with controls. Methods A total of 72 patients who satisfied the SLICC classification criteria for SLE had coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies, 30 of which had follow-up CCTA, as screening for occult coronary atherosclerotic disease in asymptomatic individuals. A total of 100 consecutive controls with no known history of lupus, heart disease or revascularisation who had two coronary CT angiograms at least 1 year apart were included in the study. These were asymptomatic patients referred by their primary physicians for screening of coronary artery disease and the screening interval was decided by the primary physicians. The methodology for image acquisition was identical. Results LANCP burden at baseline was significantly greater in patients with SLE compared with controls. LANCP volume was significantly greater in patients over 60 years of age (p<0.05) and in those with current prednisone dose >10 mg/day. LANCP burden remained stable over follow-up. There were no significant differences in remodelling index compared with controls. Conclusion This is the first study describing high-risk CCTA features of coronary plaque in patients with SLE. Both LANCP and positive remodelling are common in SLE. These characteristic vessel changes may identify patients with SLE at increased risk of cardiovascular events and those in need for more frequent cardiac monitoring.
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- George Stojan
- Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Cardiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Aguirre AD, Arbab-Zadeh A, Soeda T, Fuster V, Jang IK. Optical Coherence Tomography of Plaque Vulnerability and Rupture: JACC Focus Seminar Part 1/3. J Am Coll Cardiol 2021; 78:1257-1265. [PMID: 34531027 PMCID: PMC9851427 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.06.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Plaque rupture is the most common cause of acute coronary syndromes and sudden cardiac death. Characteristics and pathobiology of vulnerable plaques prone to plaque rupture have been studied extensively over 2 decades in humans using optical coherence tomography (OCT), an intravascular imaging technique with micron scale resolution. OCT studies have identified key features of plaque vulnerability and described the in vivo characteristics and spatial distribution of thin cap fibroatheromas as major precursors to plaque rupture. In addition, OCT data supports the evolving understanding of coronary heart disease as a panvascular process associated with inflammation. In the setting of high atherosclerotic burden, plaque ruptures often occur at multiple sites in the coronary arteries, and plaque progression and healing are dynamic processes modulated by systemic risk factors. This review details major investigations with intravascular OCT into the biology and clinical implications of plaque vulnerability and plaque rupture.
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- Aaron D. Aguirre
- Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
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- Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA
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- Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
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Akhtar T, Wallace R, Daimee UA, Hart E, Arbab-Zadeh A, Marine JE, Berger R, Calkins H, Spragg D. Transition from transesophageal echocardiography to cardiac computed tomography for the evaluation of left atrial appendage thrombus prior to atrial fibrillation ablation and incidence of cerebrovascular events during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2021; 32:3125-3134. [PMID: 34453377 DOI: 10.1111/jce.15227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is variably performed before atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation to evaluate left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus. We describe our experience with transitioning to the pre-ablation cardiac computed tomography (CT) approach for the assessment of LAA thrombus during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS We studied consecutive patients undergoing AF ablation at our center. The study cohort was divided into pre- versus post-COVID groups. The pre-COVID cohort included ablations performed during the 1 year before the COVID-19 pandemic; pre-ablation TEE was used routinely to evaluate LAA thrombus in high-risk patients. Post-COVID cohort included ablations performed during the 1 year after the COVID-19 pandemic; pre-ablation CT was performed in all patients, with TEE performed only in patients with LAA thrombus by CT imaging. The demographics, clinical history, imaging, and ablation characteristics, and peri-procedural cerebrovascular events (CVEs) were recorded. RESULTS A total of 637 patients (pre-COVID n = 424, post-COVID n = 213) were studied. The mean age was 65.6 ± 10.1 years in the total cohort, and the majority were men. There was a significant increase in pre-ablation CT imaging from pre- to post-COVID cohort (74.8% vs. 93.9%, p ≤ .01), with a significant reduction in TEEs (34.6% vs. 3.7%, p ≤ .01). One patient in the post-COVID cohort developed CVE following negative pre-ablation CT. However, the incidence of peri-procedural CVE between both cohorts remained statistically unchanged (0% vs. 0.4%, p = .33). CONCLUSION Implementation of pre-ablation CT-only imaging strategy with selective use of TEE for LAA thrombus evaluation is not associated with increased CVE risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Tauseef Akhtar
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Latina J, Shabani M, Kapoor K, Whelton SP, Trost JC, Sesso J, Demehri S, Mahesh M, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Ultra-High-Resolution Coronary CT Angiography for Assessment of Patients with Severe Coronary Artery Calcification: Initial Experience. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging 2021; 3:e210053. [PMID: 34498007 PMCID: PMC8415143 DOI: 10.1148/ryct.2021210053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE Conventional CT technology yields only modest accuracy of coronary artery stenosis assessment in severely calcified lesions. Reported herein are this study's initial observations on the potential of ultra-high-resolution CT (UHR-CT) for evaluating severely calcified coronary arterial lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifteen patients 45 years of age or older, with history of coronary artery disease, referred for invasive coronary angiography, were prospectively enrolled. Patients underwent UHR-CT within 30 days prior to cardiac catheterization. Image noise levels and diagnostic confidence (level 1-5) using UHR-CT were compared with reconstructed images simulating conventional CT technology. Stenosis assessment for the major coronary arteries and the left main coronary artery with UHR-CT and invasive angiography were compared. Results from clinically driven coronary CT using conventional technology were considered for comparison when available. RESULTS Mean patient age was 67 years (range, 53-79 years). Thirteen patients were men, nine had obesity. Radiation dose was 9.3 mSv owing to expanded x-ray exposure to accommodate research software application (70%-99% of R-R cycle). Overall image noise was considerably greater for UHR-CT (50.9 ± 7.8 [standard deviation]) versus conventional CT image reconstruction (19.5 ± 8.3, P < .01), yet diagnostic confidence scores for UHR-CT were high (4.3 ± 0.9). Average calcium score in patients without stents (n = 6) was 1205, and of 86 vessels evaluated, 22 had 70% or greater stenosis depicted with invasive angiography (26%). Stenosis comparison with invasive angiography yielded 86% (19 of 22) sensitivity and 88% (56 of 64) specificity (95% CI: 65%, 97%; and 77%, 95%, respectively). CONCLUSION Initial observations suggest UHR-CT may be effective in overcoming the limitation of conventional CT for accurately evaluating coronary artery stenoses in severely calcified vessels.Keywords: CT-Angiography, Coronary Arteries, ArteriosclerosisClinical trial registration no. NCT04272060See also commentary by Shanbhag and Chen in this issue.© RSNA, 2021.
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- Jacqueline Latina
- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N
Wolfe St, Halsted 562, Baltimore, MD 21287-0025
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England RW, Sheikhbahaei S, Solomon AJ, Arbab-Zadeh A, Solnes LB, Bronner J, Johnson PT. When More Is Better: Underused Advanced Imaging Exams That Can Improve Outcomes and Reduce Cost of Care. Am J Med 2021; 134:848-853.e1. [PMID: 33819488 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Appropriate use of resources is a tenet of care transformation efforts, with a national campaign to reduce low-value imaging. The next level of performance improvement is to bolster evidence-based screening, imaging surveillance, and diagnostic innovation, which can avert more costly, higher-risk elements of unnecessary care like emergent interventions. Clinical scenarios in which underused advanced imaging can improve outcomes and reduce total cost of care are reviewed, including abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance, coronary artery disease diagnosis, and renal mass characterization. Reliable abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance imaging reduces emergency surgery and can be driven by radiologists incorporating best practice standardized recommendations in imaging interpretations. Coronary computed tomography angiography in patients with stable and unstable chest pain can reduce downstream resource use while improving outcomes. Preoperative 99mTc-sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) reliably distinguishes oncocytoma from renal cell carcinoma to obviate unnecessary nephrectomy. As technological advances in diagnostic, molecular, and interventional radiology improve our ability to detect and cure disease, analyses of cost effectiveness will be critical to radiology leadership and sustainability in the transition to a value-based reimbursement model.
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- Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
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- Radiology Partners Research Institute, El Segundo, Calif
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Sutton NR, Banerjee S, Cooper MM, Arbab-Zadeh A, Kim J, Arain MA, Rao SV, Blumenthal RS. Coronary Artery Disease Evaluation and Management Considerations for High Risk Occupations: Commercial Vehicle Drivers and Pilots. Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2021; 14:e009950. [PMID: 34092098 DOI: 10.1161/circinterventions.120.009950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Optimal treatment of stable ischemic heart disease for those in the transportation industry is considered in the context of the individual's health, as well as with the perspective that sudden impairment could have catastrophic consequences for others. This article focuses on two high risk occupations that one may encounter in practice: commercial motor vehicle drivers and commercial pilots. This article discusses coronary heart disease in patients in high risk occupations and covers current guideline recommendations for screening, treatment, and secondary prevention. The importance of the complimentary perspectives of the regulatory agency, medical examiners, physicians, and pilot or driver are considered in this narrative review, as are considerations for future guideline updates.
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- Nadia R Sutton
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (N.R.S., J.K., M.A.A.)
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- Department of Cardiology, East Surrey Hospital, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Redhill, Surry, United Kingdom (S.B.)
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD (A.A.-Z., R.S.B.)
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (N.R.S., J.K., M.A.A.)
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (N.R.S., J.K., M.A.A.)
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- The Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (S.V.R.)
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD (A.A.-Z., R.S.B.)
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Dewey M, Rochitte CE, Ostovaneh MR, Chen MY, George RT, Niinuma H, Kitagawa K, Laham R, Kofoed K, Nomura C, Sakuma H, Yoshioka K, Mehra VC, Jinzaki M, Kuribayashi S, Laule M, Paul N, Scholte AJ, Cerci R, Hoe J, Tan SY, Rybicki FJ, Matheson MB, Vavere AL, Arai AE, Miller JM, Cox C, Brinker J, Clouse ME, Di Carli M, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Prognostic value of noninvasive combined anatomic/functional assessment by cardiac CT in patients with suspected coronary artery disease - Comparison with invasive coronary angiography and nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging for the five-year-follow up of the CORE320 multicenter study. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2021; 15:485-491. [PMID: 34024757 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2021.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Few data exist on long-term outcome in patients undergoing combined coronary CT angiography (CTA) and myocardial CT perfusion imaging (CTP) as well as invasive coronary angiography (ICA) and single photon emission tomography (SPECT). METHODS At 16 centers, 381 patients were followed for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) for the CORE320 study. All patients underwent coronary CTA, CTP, and SPECT before ICA within 60 days. Prognostic performance according binary results (normal/abnormal) was assessed by 5-year major cardiovascular events (MACE) free survival and area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve (AUC). RESULTS Follow up beyond 2-years was available in 323 patients. MACE-free survival rate was greater among patients with normal combined CTA-CTP findings compared to ICA-SPECT: 85 vs. 80% (95% confidence interval [CI] for difference 0.1, 11.3) though event-free survival time was similar (4.54 vs. 4.37 years, 95% CI for difference: -0.03, 0.36). Abnormal results by combined CTA-CTP was associated with 3.83 years event-free survival vs. 3.66 years after abnormal combined ICA-SPECT (95% CI for difference: -0.05, 0.39). Predicting MACE by AUC also was similar: 65 vs. 65 (difference 0.1; 95% CI -4.6, 4.9). When MACE was restricted to cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke, AUC for CTA-CTP was 71 vs. 60 by ICA-SPECT (difference 11.2; 95% CI -1.0, 19.7). CONCLUSIONS Combined CTA-CTP evaluation yields at least equal 5-year prognostic information as combined ICA-SPECT assessment in patients presenting with suspected coronary artery disease. Noninvasive cardiac CT assessment may eliminate the need for diagnostic cardiac catheterization in many patients. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT00934037.
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- Marc Dewey
- Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School-Humboldt, Berlin, Germany
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- InCor Heart Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Cardiology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Memorial Heart Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan; Department of Radiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Japan
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, Mass, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Rigs Hospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Radiology Sector, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiology, Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Japan
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Medicine/Cardiology, Charité Medical School-Humboldt, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Medi-Rad Associates, CT Centre, Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre, Singapore
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- Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Cardiology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, Mass, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 524, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
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Akhtar T, Daimee UA, Sivasambhu B, Boyle TA, Arbab-Zadeh A, Marine JE, Berger R, Calkins H, Spragg D. Ablation outcomes for atypical atrial flutter versus recurrent atrial fibrillation following index pulmonary vein isolation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2021; 32:1631-1639. [PMID: 33928697 DOI: 10.1111/jce.15051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Data related to electrophysiologic characteristics of atypical atrial flutter (AFL) following atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation and its prognostic value on repeat ablation success are limited. METHODS We studied consecutive patients who underwent a repeat left atrial (LA) ablation procedure for either recurrent AF or atypical AFL, at least 3 months after index AF ablation, between January 2012 and July 2019. The demographics, clinical history, procedural data, complications, and 1-year arrhythmia-free survival rates were recorded for each subject after the first repeat ablation. RESULTS A total of 336 patients were included in our study. Among these 336 patients, 102 underwent a repeat ablation procedure for atypical AFL and 234 underwent a repeat ablation procedure for recurrent AF. The mean age was 63.7 ± 10.7 years, and 72.6% of patients were men. The atypical AFL cohort had significantly higher LA diameters (4.6 vs. 4.4 cm, p = .04) and LA volume indices (LAVi; 85.1 vs. 75.4 ml/m2 , p = .03) compared to AF patients at repeat ablation. Atypical AFL patients were more likely to have had index radiofrequency (RF) ablation (as opposed to cryoballoon) than recurrent AF patients (98% vs. 81%, p = .01). Atypical AFLs were roof-dependent in 35.6% and peri-mitral in 23.8% of cases. Major complications at repeat ablation occurred in 0.9% of the total cohort. Arrhythmia-free survival at one year was significantly higher in the recurrent atypical AFL compared to the recurrent AF cohort (75.5 vs. 65.0%, p = .04). CONCLUSION In our series, roof-dependent flutter is the most common form of atypical atrial flutter post AF ablation. Patients developing atypical AFL after index AF ablation have greater LA dimensions than patients with recurrent AF. The success rate of first repeat ablation is significantly higher among patients with recurrent atypical AFL as compared to recurrent AF after index AF ablation.
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- Tauseef Akhtar
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Ferraro R, Arbab-Zadeh A. Letter by Ferraro and Arbab-Zadeh Regarding Article, "Routine Revascularization Versus Initial Medical Therapy for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials". Circulation 2021; 143:e805-e806. [PMID: 33819077 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.120.050595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Betoko A, Matheson MB, Ostovaneh MR, Miller JM, Brinker J, Cox C, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Acute Kidney Injury After Repeated Exposure to Contrast Material for Coronary Angiography. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes 2021; 5:46-54. [PMID: 33718783 PMCID: PMC7930798 DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Objective To assess the incidence of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CAAKI) after repeated exposure to contrast material for computed tomography (CT) and conventional coronary angiography within short intervals. Methods We studied 651 patients enrolled in the CorE-64 (November 5, 2005–January 30, 2007) and CORE320 (October 21, 2009–August 17, 2011) multicenter studies. Participants with suspected obstructive coronary heart disease were referred for diagnostic cardiac catheterization and underwent coronary CT angiography for research before invasive angiography. Nonionic, low-osmolality iodinated contrast material was used for all imaging. Results The median age of the patients was 62 years, and 190 (29%) were women. Major risk factors for acute kidney injury were present in 277 of 651 (43%) patients. The median interval between CT imaging and invasive angiography was 3.1 days (interquartile range, 0.9-8.0 days). The median volume of contrast material was 100 mL for each test. In 16 (2.5%) of 651 patients, CAAKI developed. Of these cases, 1 occurred after the CT scan, whereas 6 were documented after invasive angiography (compared with post-CT creatinine concentration assessment). In 9 patients, CAAKI was found in comparing creatinine concentration after completion of both tests with baseline values (but not compared with post-CT imaging). Conclusion Acute kidney injury after repeated exposure to iodinated contrast media within a few days is uncommon even in a population of patients with highly prevalent risk factors. Withholding of clinically indicated contrast-enhanced imaging may therefore not be justified in this setting.
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- Aisha Betoko
- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Villines TC, Al'Aref SJ, Andreini D, Chen MY, Choi AD, De Cecco CN, Dey D, Earls JP, Ferencik M, Gransar H, Hecht H, Leipsic JA, Lu MT, Marwan M, Maurovich-Horvat P, Nicol E, Pontone G, Weir-McCall J, Whelton SP, Williams MC, Arbab-Zadeh A, Feuchtner GM. The Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: 2020 Year in review. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2021; 15:180-189. [PMID: 33685845 PMCID: PMC9212918 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2021.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The purpose of this review is to highlight the most impactful, educational, and frequently downloaded articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCCT) for the year 2020. The JCCT reached new records in 2020 for the number of research submissions, published manuscripts, article downloads and social media impressions. The articles in this review were selected by the Editorial Board of the JCCT and are comprised predominately of original research publications in the following categories: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coronary artery disease, coronary physiology, structural heart disease, and technical advances. The Editorial Board would like to thank each of the authors, peer-reviewers and the readers of JCCT for making 2020 one of the most successful years in its history, despite the challenging circumstances of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Todd C Villines
- University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
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- Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
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- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Armin Arbab-Zadeh
- From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Daimee UA, Akhtar T, Boyle TA, Jager L, Arbab-Zadeh A, Marine JE, Berger RD, Calkins H, Spragg DD. Repeat catheter ablation for recurrent atrial fibrillation: Electrophysiologic findings and clinical outcomes. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2021; 32:628-638. [PMID: 33410561 DOI: 10.1111/jce.14867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation is successful in 60%-80% of optimal candidates, with many patients requiring repeat procedures. We performed a detailed examination of electrophysiologic findings and clinical outcomes associated with first repeat AF ablations in the era of contact force-sensing radiofrequency (RF) catheters. METHODS We retrospectively studied patients who underwent their first repeat AF ablations for symptomatic, recurrent AF at our center between 2013 and 2019. All repeat ablations were performed using contact force-sensing RF catheters. Pulmonary vein (PV) reconnections at repeat ablation and freedom from atrial arrhythmia 1 year after repeat ablation were evaluated. We further assessed these findings based on AF classification at the time of presentation for repeat ablation, index RF versus cryoballoon (CB) ablation, and duration (≥3 versus <3 years) between index and repeat procedures. RESULTS Among 300 patients, there were 136 (45.3%) who presented for their first repeat ablations in persistent AF. During repeat ablation, at least one PV reconnection was found in 257 (85.6%) patients, while 159 (53%) had three to four reconnections. There was a similar distribution of reconnections among patients with persistent versus paroxysmal AF (mean: 2.7 ± 1.3 vs. 2.9 ± 1.2; p = .341), index RF versus CB ablation (mean: 2.8 ± 1.3 vs. 2.9 ± 1.2; p = .553), and ≥3 versus <3 years between index and repeat procedures (mean: 3.0 ± 1.1 vs. 2.7 ± 1.3; p = .119). At repeat ablation, the PVs were re-isolated in all patients, and additional non-PV ablation was performed in 171 (57%) patients. Freedom from atrial arrhythmia at 1-year follow-up after repeat ablation was 66%, similar among those with persistent versus paroxysmal AF (65.4% vs. 66.5%; p = .720), index RF versus CB ablation (66.7% vs. 68.9%; p = .930), and ≥3 versus <3 years between index and repeat ablations (64.4% vs. 66.7%; p = .760). Major complications occurred in a total of 4 (1.3%) patients. CONCLUSION In a contemporary cohort of patients receiving their first repeat AF ablations using contact force-sensing RF catheters, PV reconnections were common, and freedom from atrial arrhythmia was 66% at 1-year follow-up. The distributions of PV reconnections and rates of freedom from atrial arrhythmia were similar, based on persistent versus paroxysmal AF at presentation for repeat ablation, index RF versus CB ablation, and duration between index and repeat procedures. The incidence of major complications was very low.
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- Usama A Daimee
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Shabani M, Pishgar F, Akhtarkhavari S, Quinaglia T, Budoff MJ, Bluemke DA, Barr GR, Post WS, Wu CO, Arbab-Zadeh A, Sidhaye A, Lima JAC, Demehri S. Association of Quantified Costal Cartilage Calcification and Long-Term Cumulative Blood Glucose Exposure: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:785957. [PMID: 34966360 PMCID: PMC8711271 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.785957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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AIMS Anecdotal reports have suggested increased soft tissue calcification in individuals with long-term exposures to high blood glucose. The association of costal cartilage calcification (CCC), a reliably quantifiable marker obtainable from non-contrast cardiac computed tomography (CT) with cumulative fasting blood glucose (FBG) exposure, is unknown. In this study, we aimed to determine the association between quantified CCC and cumulative glucose exposure using non-contrast coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring computed tomography (CT) images in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). METHODS The volume of bilateral CCC was quantified in high-density pixels (threshold of Hounsfield Unit>180) using the CAC scoring CT images acquired in the 5th MESA exam. Prior long-term cumulative exposure to FBG was calculated by area under the FBG-time curve over ten years before the time of the CT exam. RESULTS A total of 2,305 participants (mean age: 69, female/male: 1.3) were included in this study. The median CCC volume was lower in females than males (1158 mm3 [IQR: 1751] vs. 3054 mm3 [3851], p<0.001). In cross-sectional analysis, quantified CCC was associated with FBG (9% increase per SD) and HbA1c (7% increase per SD) at the CT exam only in female participants after adjustment for age, race, BMI, and glomerular filtration rate. Only in female participants, quantified CCC was also associated with prior cumulative FBG (3% increase per decile change). In the subgroup of females with zero CAC scores, the adjusted CCC was still associated with FBG (13% increase per SD) at the time of CT exam and with prior cumulative FBG exposure (4% increase per decile change) before the CT exam. CONCLUSIONS The CCC, a reliably quantified marker in non-contrast cardiac CT, is associated with 10-year cumulative FBG exposure only in female participants, even those with zero CAC.
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- Mahsima Shabani
- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Lundquist Institute, Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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